House of Cotton

One night, while working at her dead-end gas station job, Magnolia Brown encounters a mysterious, slick stranger named Cotton. He offers to turn her luck around with a lucrative "modeling" job at his family´s funeral home--where she will pose as clients´ dead loved ones. She accepts. Despite earning more than she´s ever made, Magnolia finds that her problems are fattening along with her wallet. And when Cotton´s requests become increasingly strange, Magnolia discovers there´s a lot more at stake than just her rent. This roller-coaster ride of a novel upends expectations at every turn. A bold new talent in the gothic tradition but with a style all her own, "Brashears offers a fresh new perspective on Appalachia and the American South, and Magnolia´s rich voice will echo with readers long after the pages are closed" (Shelf Awareness).